Barking Cats
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There’s a new track posted- Live To Rock, from the early Urban Fiction work with Jenn last spring, remixed with a rewritten bass line. I went for a live club feel on this mix, not overdoing things based on what four people could do live on stage (though, really, it’s either five people or Jenn [...]
Created a Twitter account today, partly because I’m thinking about doing Santarchy next Saturday and they’re planning to use Twitter to communicate on the day, partly because it’s survived long enough it might be worth a look. It’s like Yahoo Groups for TXTers – one person has 2100 people he was following and 2200 following [...]
I don’t have much need for pharmaceuticals (unlike, apparently, a large percentage of the population). I need a prescription maybe every couple years or so for a sinus or skin infection, do the Walgreens thing, and am done. But I got a prescription a couple days ago for (let’s say) VitaminX that I need to [...]
A sorta weird one: I took five days of ciprofloxacin earlier this year for a killer sinus infection. It worked, but I noticed that my left Achilles tendon developed a new, unusually sharp pain when I stretched or pushed hard on the bike. I backed off on stressing it (probably avoiding serious damage), then googled on [...]
More admin- have updated to a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. No real impact; the terms remain the same as the 2.0 license in use previously. The reference page changes to the new WordPress format, and there are new links. There’s a link over on the right if you’re interested.
Just finished updating the site to WordPress 2.5, required because Laughing Squid updated to PHP 5.2. The older WordPress seemed to be running fine, but what the heck. It was a good chance to remember how the whole thing is put together, though I think I’ve now spent more time maintaining the blog infrastructure this [...]
Hi. Another year, another essay. For the attention-span-challenged (we know who we are)- A good year. Lotsa stuff happening. As usual… Health good, no big changes Started a band, wrote/recorded a cool song, took a performance class, did a couple shows. Played bass, sang. Ended the band (creative differences). Taking Berklee electric bass classes. Spent [...]
Uh, yeah, still here, despite evidence to the contrary. Got caught up pretty heavily in estate stuff for my mom April through July, just digging myself out. As part of going through my mom’s stuff, I found a local chapter of FreeCycle that’s pretty cool. It’s a forum for people with stuff to give away [...]
This is the holiday letter I printed and mailed out to a few people at the last minute, with added links. 2006 was dominated by my music program. Last December, I signed up for a Masters Certificate program in Theory and Harmony, offered on-line by Berklee College of Music in Boston. The eight-course program filled [...]
Having been telling people in a low-key way that I’m taking classes, spending this year being a student, and they mostly haven’t been getting it. Dunno whether it’s the mismatch between “40-something male” and “school,” or that nobody believes web-based learning could be serious. Finally got a few people to notice a couple weeks ago [...]